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centenary

noun
🔊/senˈtiːnəri/
🔊/senˈtenəri/
(plural centenaries)
(especially British English)
(North American English usually centennial)
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  1. the 100th anniversary of an event100 周年纪念
    • The club will celebrate its centenary next year.俱乐部明年要庆祝成立一百周年。🔊🔊
    • the centenary year一百周年纪念年
    • centenary celebrations一百周年纪念庆典。
    see also bicentenary, tercentenaryTopics Timec2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + centenary/​centennial
    • celebrate
    • commemorate
    • mark
    • …
    centenary/​centennial + noun
    • celebrations
    • year
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a century): from Latin centenarius ‘containing a hundred’, based on Latin centum ‘a hundred’.